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As always, we are proud to present news about alumni from the Division of Performing Arts. Please send your update to john.bell@desales.edu.
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Here are some updates on four of our most successful graduates. These actors are represented by Kyle Luker (Theatre '99), a talent manager with The Group Entertainment (thegroupentertainment.com):
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Alexie Gilmore (Theatre '99) Alexie has finished a few films that have yet to come out Fairhaven with Chris Messina and Sarah Paulson, and Tan Lines with Josh Hopkins and Guillermo Diaz. She's also currently filming a guest star on the hit FOX series House. Past credits include starring opposite Robin Williams in World's Greatest Dad as well as the TV Series, New Amsterdam.
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  Dee Roscioli (Theatre '99) Dee recently finished the National Tour of Wicked after having starred on Broadway in the role of Elphaba. She maintains her title of having played the role more than any other actress.
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Zack Robidas (Theatre '06) booked a guest spot last season on 30 Rock and has a supporting role in the film Arbitrage with Susan Sarandon and Richard Gere. He also appeared in It's Complicated with Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, and Alec Baldwin.
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Marnie Schulenburg (Theatre '06) last summer, Marnie returned to the Labuda stage to star as Nellie Forbush in PSFs production of South Pacific. She has guest starred on such TV episodes as Army Wives, Blue Bloods, Canterburys Law, Fringe and Royal Pains. Schulenburg was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for her role as Alison Stewart on the daytime drama, As the World Turns.
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Marian West (Dance '06) is a dance therapist working in the Lancaster area. Recently her work with a 30-year old, wheelchair-bound woman named Melissa Sneath with cerebral palsy who Marian works with in class and recently choreographed into a dance was featured in a human interest story produced by WGAL Channel 8 in Lancaster, PA.
Brian D’Ostilio (TV/Film '08) is an Assistant Producer for the 2010 ESPN ESPY Awards in NYC.
Anne Marie Keefe (Theatre '06) has finished her Master of Fine Arts in Arts Administration at Southern Utah University in May. She is currently teaching a stage management course and working as the Assistant to the Director of Development at the College of Performing and Visual Arts at SUU. She will do her final thesis project as the General Management intern at HERE Arts Center in NYC.
Director Matt Nye (TV/Film '09) and screenwriter Vince Nigito (TV/Film ’09) premiered their new film “Goodbye Forever” as part of the “Independence Meets Art” series at The Meadows Grove in Hellertown, PA.
Alex Frangoulis (Theatre '09) and Amanda Millere (Theatre ’10) are engaged. Alex proposed after Amand’s graduation on May, 20th (she said “Yes!”). In addition, Amanda is now a certified Wedding Planner and Consultant who will be working in three internships this summer.
Jackie Ostick (Theatre '08) has been busy lately. She completed a tour with Artspower National Theatre in a Civil War musical called Four Score and Seven Years Ago and then moved on to play “Jack’s Mother” in Into the Woods (she played the same role in the 2007 DSU production!) at the Roxy Regional Theatre in Tennessee.
Jeremy Sabol (Theatre '09) appeared in Peter Pan with The New Acting Company at The Phillip Coltoff Center in NYC in spring 2010.
Rob MacMullan (Theatre '92) has spent the last four years running his own production company as a video professional in Los Angeles.
The voiceover talents of Brendan Moser (Theatre '11) and James Nestor (Theatre’10) will be featured on a Time-Life special edition DVD that will be part of the History Channel’s “WWII in HD” DVD package.
Christopher Fulmer (TV/Film ’04) is the co-host of WYLN’s travel show, Off the Beaten Path, with his own segment titled “Chris and His Camera.” WYLN broadcasts of our Hazleton, Pa, serving over 500,000 households throughout northeastern Pennsylvania.
Alex Frangoulis (Theatre '09) has been accepted into the Master of Arts degree program in Theatre at Villanova University.
Cat Logan (Theatre '08) has been cast as Juliet in Theatre Horizon's (Norristown, Pa.) upcoming production of Romeo and Juliet.
Megan Bellwoar (Theatre '86) is in her 12th year as head of the theatre program at Abington Friends School. Twenty of her students performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in summer 2008 garnering four-star reviews and she performed in December 2008 in Cherry Bomb, a world premiere musical produced by 1812 Productions in Philadelphia. Thanks to Facebook, she's back in touch with other DeSales friends such as Susan McCully (Theatre '85), Bernadette Flagler (Theatre '85), Maribeth Mooney (Theatre '87) and Libby Schwartz (Theatre '87).
James McAndrew (Theatre '01) appeared on Heroes in February 2009 on an episode titled Building 26 as an FBI agent.
Amanda Salvatore (Theatre '08) recently appeared in If You Give a Pig a Party at the Manhattan Children's Theatre (Act 3 training put to good use!) and most recently, in spring 2009, she appeared in Camelot at the Goodspeed Opera House.
John McStravick (TV/Film '02) is the story producer for Cheri Sundae Productions in Los Angeles.
Paul Pride (Theatre '09) plans to move to LA and pursue a career in TV/Film.
Kelly O'Donnell (Theatre '95) co-founded, with fellow alum Gus Schulenburg '98, the Flux Theatre Ensemble which produced Pretty Theft this past April. The production featured alumni Marnie Schulenburg '06 and Zach Robidas '06 and received a positive review from The New York Times.
Christina Lowe (Theatre '09) hopes to pursue a career in casting in New York City.
An original adaptation of Gilgamesh presented at the Allentown Symphony Hall and produced by the Circle of Stones Ensemble featured many DSU folks. Alumni Rachel Joffred (Theatre '08), Kristine Bonaventura (Theatre '09), Victoria Rose Bonito (Theatre '09), Nakia Gard (Dance '09), and Kris Yoder (Theatre '99) as well as current students Ryan Alexander (Theatre and Dance '10), Dan Bontempo (Theatre '11), Jennifer Starr Foley (Theatre '11), Tom Guastavino (Theatre '11), Melissa Keiser (Dance '11), Christine Michener (Dance '11), Eliza Martin (Theatre, '11), James Nester (Theatre '11), Kathleen O'Mara (Theatre '10), and John Reshetar (Theatre '10) all appeared in the production along with faculty member Wayne Turney. Victoria Fragnito (Theatre '10) served as Assistant to the Director. The entire production was under the direction of faculty member Steven Dennis.
Bud Martin (Theatre '72) is the Producing Artistic Director of Act II Playhouse in Ambler, Pa. After receiving his degree from DeSales, he went on to receive his M.A. in Theatre from Villanova University. In addition to his work with Act II Playhouse, Broadway producing credits include 9 To 5, the new Dolly Parton musical which was recently nominated for multiple Drama Desk Awards.
Bobby Cucinella (Theatre '09) is planning to move to NYC to pursue an acting career with an eye toward the LA Stunt School.
Victoria Kroll (Dance '09) is looking to open her own dance studio now that she's graduated.
Elizabeth Stives (Theatre '07) is the Audience Services Manager/Development Associate at Act II Playhouse in Ambler, Pa.
Jeremy Sabol (Theatre '09) is heading to New York with Mary Ann Furey (Theatre '09) where they hope to pursue acting careers with bits of playwriting and airplane jumping on the side.
Patrick McGee (TV/Film '09) is heading into the Walt Disney World College Program in Orlando and then he hopes to attend graduate school in Dramatic Writing.
Alyssandra Docherty (Theatre '09) plans to continue pursuing her dream as a professional actress but is also thinking about working in technical theatre in the cruise industry working with some of the most advanced lighting technology while travelling to foreign worlds.
Chris Brossman (Theatre '09) spent the summer working at the Pines Dinner Theatre performing in productions of Me and My Girl and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
Brian Kalinowski (Theatre '04) embarks on a nine month tour to play his dream role: Edna Turnblad in Hairspray on Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines' Oasis of the Seas, the newest, largest cruise ship ever built.
Michael Menapace (Theatre '07), who has been working with Disney World Entertainment, has also been cast in Busch Garden's Howl-O-Scream show in Tampa, Fla.
After eight years with Lehigh University, Jacob Campbell (Theatre '99) moved to New York City to accept a position with The New School University.
Patti DeMatteo (Theatre '07) was a performer and teaching artist last year with the Florida Studio Theatre of Sarasota from October to May, and is now appearing off-Broadway in The Bully with Vital Theatre Company.
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